Platform Operations Engineer at Peterson Technology Partners
Chicago, IL
About the Job
Job Description
Primary Responsibilities:
• Automate repeatable and frequent operational processes and procedures
• Monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for website and applications
• Remediate all Security Vulnerabilities related to the platforms
• Provide Tier 3 Production 24x7 on-call support (rotation)
• Perform platform upgrades using established automated procedures
• Participate in Change, Incident, and Problem management including Root Cause Analysis
• Improve and document operational and troubleshooting procedures
Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years experience hands on production support on bare metal servers and containers.
• A quick learner and self-starter eager to learn new technologies with automation mindset.
• 4+ years experience with Ansible, Bash, Python, Perl or similar scripting language
• 4+ years experience with modern web and mobile application environments (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, routing, load balancing, CDNs, WAF security, etc)
• 4+ years with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Ansible and Salt Stack or similar configuration management tool
• Experience with Stash/Bitbucket or similar code repository tool
• Experience with web application technologies including HTML, JavaScript, Node.js, Nginx, React
• Working knowledge of incident, problem, and change management best practices
Desired Qualifications:
• Large scale eCommerce industry experience
• Experience with the implementation and management of procedures in a technical operations environment, including managing and reporting on quality and operational metrics
• Experience with APIs, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and microservices
• Experience configuring Nagios or similar monitoring tool
• Experience with DataDog or similar Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool
• Experience with Jenkins, Gitlab or similar CI/CD tool
• 4+ years Elasticsearch Management: Design, deploy, and maintain Elasticsearch clusters, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.
• Preferred candidate is passionate about the hospitality industry